EP0787301B1 - Estimation of the fragmentation pattern of collagen in body fluids and the diagnosis of disorders associated with the metabolism of collagen - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method of estimating the fragmentation pattern of collagen in body fluids.
- the invention further relates to analytical systems to be used when determining the collagen fragmentation pattern.
- the invention relates to the use of the above methods to diagnose and characterise the presence of disorders associated with the metabolism of bone.
- Osteoporosis as well as a number of other diseases of bone are characterised by an increased rate of bone loss when compared to the rate of loss in a healthy population.
- the rate of loss has been shown to be highly correlated to the future fracture risk (Christiansen et al., Prediction of future fracture risk. In: Christiansen et al, eds, Proceedings 1993. Fourth International Symposium on Osteoporosis, Hong Kong. Osteopress Aps 1993; pp. 52-54). Therefore the rate of loss is an important parameter to estimate for the diagnosis of such diseases.
- hydroxyproline an amino acid largely restricted to collagen, and the principal structural protein in bone and all other connective tissues, is excreted in urine. Its excretion rate is known to be increased in certain conditions, notably Paget's disease, a metabolic bone disorder in which bone turnover is greatly increased, as discussed further below.
- urinary hydroxyproline has been used extensively as an amino acid marker for collagen degradation; Singer, F.R. et al., Metabolic Bone Disease, Vol. II (eds. Avioli, L.V., andKane, S.M.), 489-575 (1978), Academic Press, New York.
- Bone resorption associated with Paget's disease has also been monitored by measuring small peptides containing hydroxyproline, which are excreted in the urine following degradation of bone collagen; Russell et al., Metab. Bone Dis. and Rel. Res. 4 and 5, 2250262 (1981), and Singer, F.R., et al., supra.
- Hydroxyproline is a good marker for osteoporosis as it is specific for collagen in bones even if it is not specific for bone resorption, but it is troublesome to handle.
- hydroxylysine and its glycoside derivatives both peculiar to collagenous proteins, have been considered to be more accurate than hydroxyproline as markers of collagen degradation.
- hydroxyproline hydroxylysine and its glycosides are probably equally non-specific markers of bone resorption; Krane, S.M. and Simon, L.S., Develop. Biochem. 22:185 (1981).
- WO-A-9221698 describes the detection of various collagen breakdown products, e.g. different telopeptides of Type I collagen by immunological means.
- the level of peptide reactive with a described monoclonal antibody may be correlated to the amount of other peptides that occur in greater quantities and to the rate of bone resorption.
- GB Patent Application No. 2205643 reports that the degradation of Type III collagen in the body can be quantitatively determined by measuring the concentration of an N-terminal telopeptide from Type III collagen in a body fluid. This method uses antibodies generated to N-terminal telopeptides released by bacterial collagenase degradation of Type III collagen, said telopeptides being labelled and used in the assay.
- EP Patent Application No. 0505210 describes the development of antibody reagents by immunisation with purified cross-linked C-terminal telopeptides from type I collagen.
- the immunogen is prepared by solubilising human bone collagen with bacterial collagenase.
- the antibodies thus prepared are able to react with both cross-linked and non-cross-linked telopeptides, and cross-linkers other than pyridinoline.
- Propeptides are distinguished from telopeptides and the alpha-helical region of the collagen core by their location in the procollagen molecule and the timing of their cleavage in vivo; see US Patent No. 4504587; US Patent No. 4312853; Pierard et al., Analytical Biochemistry 141:127-136 (1984); Niemela, Clin. Chem. 31/8:1301-1304 (1985); and Rohde et al., European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 9:451-459 (1979).
- EP Patent Application No. 0298210 and No. 0339443 both describe immunological determination of procollagen peptide type III and fragments thereof. Further, a method based on the measurement of procollagen is disclosed in EP Patent Application No. 0465104.
- US Patent No. 4778768 relates to a method of determining changes occurring in articular cartilage involving quantifying proteoglycan monomers or antigenic fragments thereof in a synovial fluid sample.
- WO94/03813 describes a competitive immunoassay for detecting collagen or collagen fragments in a sample wherein a binding partner containing a synthetic linear peptide corresponding to the non-helical C-terminal or N-terminal domain of collagen is incubated with an antibody to the linear synthetic peptide and the sample, and wherein the binding of the antibody to the binding partner is determined.
- WO95/08115 relates to assay methods in which collagen fragments in a body fluid are determined by,reaction with an antibody which is reactive with a synthetic peptide.
- the assay may be a competition assay in which the sample and such a peptide compete for an antibody, possibly a polyclonal antibody raised against fragments of collagen obtained by collagenase degradation of collagen.
- it may be an assay in which an antibody, possibly a monoclonal antibody, is used which has been raised against such a synthetic peptide.
- K-K-K represents cross-link which may for instance be a hydroxypyridinium cross-link but may be any naturally occurring cross-link and specifically any of those discussed in Last et al. Int. J. Biochem. Vol. 22, No. 6, 559-564, 1990.
- Another bone resorption assay (described in WO94/038113) relates to all fragments containing a pyridinoline structure and two peptide chains of the N-telopeptides of type I collagen (see also Hanson et al., A specific immunoassay for monitoring human bone resorption: quantitation of type 1 collagen cross-linked N-telopeptides in urine, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Vol. 7, Number 11, 1992). We believe the fragments reactive in both these assays to have a considerable variation in respect of their size and their content of crosslinking molecules (e.g. pyridinoline, Ehrlich chromogen, and pyrrole structures).
- crosslinking molecules e.g. pyridinoline, Ehrlich chromogen, and pyrrole structures
- the present invention now provides a method of estimating the fragmentation pattern of collagen, preferably type 1 collagen, in a body fluid, comprising subjecting a sample of said body fluid to at least two distinct immunological assays, each of which measures the amount of a respective population of collagen breakdown products in said sample and comparing the results of the said measurements.
- the results may preferably be compared by combining them mathematically to form a numerical index, e.g. by taking their ratio.
- a ratio formed between the concentration of the fragments measured in two independent immunological assays of bone resorption, provides an index which is dependent on the fragmentation pattern of type I collagen and which therefore can be used for diagnostic purposes in relation to disorders associated to the metabolism of collagen.
- a numerical index derived from two or more assays may be linked to a particular identified pattern of fragmentation if desired by separating collagen fragments in the sample, e.g. by HPLC or by gel-filtration, and measuring the amounts of peptide in specific fractions, optionally identifying the peptides in question. However, this is not necessary to the practice of the invention.
- patient type embraces both healthy patients of different age and/or sex and patients with one or more pathological or abnormal conditions.
- each of said populations of breakdown products comprises breakdown products of telopeptides of type I collagen.
- At least one said population is of breakdown products containing peptides comprising one or more of the following amino acid sequences of human type 1 collagen:
- One such population may contain peptides comprising one or more of the following amino acid sequences of human type II collagen: or one or more of the following amino acid sequences of human collagen type III: or
- one of said assays measures the amount of population of breakdown products characterised by containing isoaspartic acid.
- Said population may comprise or consist of breakdown products containing one or more peptides of the sequence EKAH*GGR, wherein * is isoaspartic acid and K is part of a collagen cross-link or is lysine.
- One of the assays may involve determining the amount of the peptide of formula 2 (below) present in said body fluid: wherein K-K-K is any naturally occurring cross-link and * is isoaspartic acid, or of one or more peptides incorporating an epitope present in the peptide of formula 2 which contains isoaspartic acid.
- Said determination may be carried out using an immunological binding partner specific for an isoaspartic acid containing species present in the sample during the procedure.
- the immunological binding partner may be an antibody raised against a linear peptide corresponding to a sequence within collagen with isoaspartic acid substituting in said amino acid sequence for aspartic acid in said collagen sequence. It may be an antibody raised against a fragment of collagen, selected for its affinity for such an isoaspartic acid containing peptide.
- a or the other said assay may preferably measure a population of breakdown products containing peptides related to those detected in said one assay by the presence of aspartic acid in place of isoaspartic acid.
- the invention includes a kit for use in estimating the fragmentation pattern of collagen type 1 in a body fluid, comprising an immunological binding partner for a first population of collagen type I breakdown products, an immunological binding partner for a second population of collagen type 1 breakdown products and optionally one or more assay kit ingredients selected from buffers, wash solutions, synthetic peptides, anti-idiotype antibodies, antibody-enzyme conjugates,substrates for antibody-enzyme conjugates, body fluid control samples, standard solutions and enzyme conjugate reaction stopping solutions.
- the second assay is based on a monoclonal antibody and is described in Fledelius et al., American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Abstract C 344, Kansas City, 1994). Both of these assays are also described in WO 95/08115.
- This ratio can be used for distinguishing between urine samples giving identical readings in one or other assay (see Table 1), and therefore has utility for diagnostic purposes.
- the method of forming the relevant ratio between assays of bone resorption will be used to diagnose disorders of the metabolism of collagen analogously to the diagnosis and estimation of risk of atherosclerosis, namely by measuring the total cholesterol and subfractions (HDL, LDL) and by forming the relevant ratios between the subfractions and the total cholesterol.
- rabbits were immunised with collagenase treated collagen and antibody serums reactive with 8AA were selected.
- the polyclonal antibody under assay conditions selectively detects in urine peptides containing all or some of an analogous amino acid sequence in which isoaspartic acid replaces aspartic acid in the 8AA sequence (iso-8AA).
- an analogous amino acid sequence in which isoaspartic acid replaces aspartic acid in the 8AA sequence iso-8AA.
- peptide fragments in body fluid are related to peptides of equivalent formula, e.g. peptides of formula 1, by their replacement of aspartic acid in the formula by isoaspartic acid.
- bone peptide fragments of the isomerization provides confirmation that the peptide fragments indeed derive from bone degradation and not some other source such as the degradation of newly formed collagen never incorporated into bone.
- one of the assays is carried out using an immunological binding partner specific for an isoaspartic acid containing species present in the sample during the procedure, preferably said peptide of formula 2 or a peptide incorporating an epitope present in the peptide of formula 2 which contains isoaspartic acid.
- the immunological binding partner may be a monoclonal or polyclonal antibody.
- the immunological binding partner be specific for the isoaspartic acid containing species is meant that the immunological binding partner distinguishes between said species and the analogous aspartic acid containing species to an extent useful in the assay.
- the immunological binding partner is an antibody raised against a linear peptide, preferably a synthetic peptide, corresponding to a sequence within collagen with isoaspartic acid substituting in said amino acid sequence for aspartic acid in said collagen sequence
- Each assay may take many forms including ELISA, RIA, or IRMA, procedures for which are too well known to warrant description here.
- the synthetic peptide may be immobilised on a solid support.
- a sample may be incubated with a polyclonal antibody or monoclonal antibody for the synthetic peptide in contact with the solid support and after washing, a peroxidase-conjugated (revealing) antibody may be added. After further incubation, a peroxidase substrate solution is added.
- a peroxidase substrate solution is added.
- the synthetic peptide is used to raise a monoclonal immunological binding partner
- the synthetic peptide need not be a competing agent in the assay.
- collagenase treated collagen may be purified and immobilised onto the solid support and an ELISA may be carried out using a monoclonal antibody.
- Antibodies may be prepared which are respectively selective for one or more aspartic acid containing peptides and for their isoaspartic acid containing analogues. It is then possible to carry out an assay for both variants of the peptide or peptides. The relative amount of isoaspartic acid will provide an indication of the age of the bone which is being broken down. Accordingly, the invention provides a method of obtaining information regarding collagen resorption in a patient, comprising measuring in a body fluid the relative amounts of at least one aspartic acid containing peptide derived from collagen and a corresponding isoaspartic acid containing peptide.
- the invention may be applied both to humans and to animals.
- Suitable body fluids include, e.g. human, urine, blood, serum, plasma and synovial fluid. It is contemplated that the method may also be used e.g. on saliva and sweat.
- the body fluid may be used as it is, or it may be purified prior to the contacting step. This purification step may be accomplished using a number of standard procedures, including, but not limited to, cartridge adsorption and elution, molecular sieve chromatography, dialysis, ion exchange, alumina chromatography, hydroxyapatite chromatography, and combinations thereof.
- one or both assays are performed by an inhibition ELISA (enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) by contacting a sample with a synthetic peptide having a sequence derived from collagen and with an antibody, which is immunoreactive with the synthetic peptide.
- the synthetic peptide is immobilised on a solid support.
- the antibody may be raised against the synthetic peptide or raised against collagen degradation products and screened for by use of such a synthetic peptide.
- the preparation of synthetic peptides may be performed according to procedures well known in the art, e.g. by solid-phase peptide synthesis techniques commonly described as "Merrifield synthesis”. Also classical solution phase techniques may be used. Sequences of interest include potential sites for collagen cross-linking (see for example Kuhn, K., in Immunochemistry of the extracellular matrix, 1:1-29(1982), Eyre, D.R., Ann. Rev.Biochem. 53:717-48 (1984), or US Patent No. 5140103). Examples of such peptides sequences are given above.
- the synthetic peptides it is possible to omit (or add) one or more amino acid residues from (or to) the crosslinkable site sequences without substantial loss of the ability to (a) raise antibodies recognising the isoaspartic acid analogue of the corresponding native collagen fragment or (b) inhibit the binding of such antibodies to the said analogue of the native fragment. It is possible to use longer collagen fragments and/or chimeric peptides to raise the antibodies and, in principle, it is not necessary to use the same peptide as the immunogen and the competitor in a competition assay.
- Suitable procedures include, but are not limited to, glutaraldehyde, carbodiimide, and periodate.
- Preferred binding agents are glutaraldehyde and carbodiimide.
- the preparation of antibodies may be carried out by conventional techniques including immunisation with collagen fragments or synthetic peptides conjugated to a carrier.
- the immunogen be mixed with an adjuvant before injection.
- adjuvants include, but are not limited to, aluminium hydroxide, Freund's adjuvant, and immune-stimulating complexes (ISCOMs).
- ISCOMs can be made according to the method described by Morein, B. et al., Nature 308:457-460 (1984).
- mice are immunised. Spleen cells from the immunised mouse are harvested, homogenised, and thereafter fused with cancer cells in the presence of polyethylene glycol to produce a cell hybrid which produces monoclonal antibodies specific for peptide fragments derived from collagen.
- cancer cells include, but are not limited to, myeloma, hepatoma, carcinoma, and sarcoma cells.
- a preferred preliminary screening protocol comprises the use of synthetic peptides conjugated to a carrier and coated on to the solid surface of a microtitre plate.
- Suitable animal species include, but are not limited to, chicken, rabbit and goat. Chicken and rabbit are preferred.
- Antibodies so produced may be screened for suitability for use according to the invention by testing for reactivity with an isoaspartic acid containing synthetic peptide of appropriate sequence.
- Antibody fragments are prepared by methods known in the art (see E. Ishikawa. Journal of Immunoassay 3:209-327 (1983)).
- an immunoassay with the antibodies prepared as above it is possible to assay a biological fluid sample without prior fractionation or hydrolysis.
- the specificity for the desired collagen in the biological fluid may be supplied by the antibody in combination with the use of a synthetic peptide (against which the antibody was raised or in any event with which the antibody is immunochemically reactive) in the assay construction.
- the immunoassay may be performed using a monoclonal antibody.
- the basic idea of this assay design is to shift the specificity of the assay from the antigen (synthetic peptide to collagen) to the antibody (from rabbit antiserum to monoclonal antibody). Using this construction the assay does not need to make further use of a synthetic peptide.
- This version of the immunoassay is suitably performed by incubating the patient sample or a standard solution with a peroxidase-conjugated antibody solution in a microtiter plate pre-coated with purified collagenase-treated collagen. After washing, the wells of the plate are incubated in the dark with a substrate solution. The colour reaction is stopped by the addition of a stopping solution, and finally the absorbance is measured.
- the immunoassays themselves may be conducted using any procedure selected from the variety of standard assay protocols generally known in the art. As it is generally understood, the assay is constructed so as to rely on the interaction between the specific immunological binding partner and the desired analyte for specificity and to utilise some means to detect the complex formed by the analyte and the immunological binding partner.
- the immunological binding partner may be complexed to a solid support and used as a capture immunological binding partner for the analyte.
- This protocol may be run in a direct form, wherein the formation of analyte-immunological binding partner complex is detected, e.g.
- the format may also be constructed as an agglutination assay or the complex may be precipitated by addition of a suitable precipitant to the reaction mixture.
- the specific design of the immunoassay protocol is open to a wide variety of choice, and the number of clinical assay devices and protocols available in the art is multitudinous. For a variety of such protocols, see US. Patent No. 5001225.
- kits which include the necessary components and instructions for the assay.
- a kit includes a microtiter plate coated with a relevant synthetic peptide, standard solutions for preparation of a standard curve, a urine or other body fluid control for quality testing of the analytical run, rabbit antibodies reactive with the above mentioned synthetic peptide, anti-rabbit immunoglobulins conjugated to peroxidase, a substrate solution, a stopping solution, a washing buffer and an instruction manual.
- the ratios of the corresponding collagen fragment sequences in an appropriate biological fluid can be determined as well as their individual levels and their total.
- the assay can be designed to include antibodies which will result in determination of several isoaspartic acid containing peptides and optionally the native peptide sequences or determination of a single isoaspartic acid containing peptide sequence and a corresponding or different native peptide sequence, or any desired combination thereof.
- Peroxide conjugated Antibody HRP-conjugated goat antibodies to rabbit IgG, 100 ⁇ l/well
- TMB Substrate Solution 100 ⁇ l was added to all wells which were sealed and incubated for 15 min.
- the enzyme reaction stopped after 15 min by addition of 100 ⁇ l Stopping Solution.
- the optical density was read in an ELISA-reader at 450 nm.
- a calibration curve was constructed on a log-linear graph paper by plotting the mean absorbances of the five standards (0.1-5.0 ⁇ g/ml).
- the concentration of equivalents to the synthetic peptide (Glu-Lys-Ala-His-Asp-Gly-Gly-Arg) in each patient specimen were determined by interpolation on the calibration curve.
- the urine from the child of 11 years shows only one major peak after approximately 56 ml.
- two distinct peaks are observed (first peak at 53 ml and peak 2 at 64 ml).
- Urine samples from 8 women (age 23-56) and 8 children (age 8-12) were analysed in the two immunoassays, one polyclonal and one monoclonal described above.
- Table 1 shows the results of each urine sample. Furthermore, it gives the ratio of the values obtained in the two systems on one sample. The values from the children all are in the range 0.82-1.12, whereas the values for the adult women are in the range 0.14-0.25. Each value given in the table is based on three independent tests in the two assays.
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Sample ID | Poly (µg/ml) | Mono (µg/ml) | Ratio (mono/poly) |
| 4.14 | 4.05 | 0.98 |
| 8.12 | 8.87 | 1.09 |
Child #3 | 3.22 | 3.28 | 1.02 |
| 1.23 | 1.09 | 0.89 |
Child #5 | 3.40 | 2.79 | 0.82 |
| 2.12 | 1.90 | 0.86 |
Child #7 | 1.45 | 1.51 | 1.04 |
| 6.03 | 5.49 | 0.91 |
| 4.14 | 0.79 | 0.19 |
| 6.12 | 0.98 | 0.16 |
Woman #3 | 1.88 | 0.47 | 0.25 |
| 5.22 | 0.83 | 0.16 |
Woman #5 | 2.76 | 0.66 | 0.24 |
| 5.04 | 0.71 | 0.14 |
Woman #7 | 7.45 | 1.42 | 0.19 |
| 4.76 | 0.86 | 0.18 |
CONTROLS SAMPLE No. | CROSSLAPS (MG/L) | MABA7 (MG/L) | RATIO (CROSS/MABA7) |
1 | 4.14 | 0.79 | 0.19 |
2 | 6.12 | 0.98 | 0.16 |
3 | 1.88 | 0.47 | 0.25 |
4 | 5.22 | 0.83 | 0.16 |
5 | 2.76 | 0.66 | 0.24 |
6 | 5.04 | 0.71 | 0.14 |
7 | 7.45 | 1.42 | 0.19 |
8 | 4.76 | 0.86 | 0.18 |
MEAN | 0.19 | ||
PATIENTS SAMPLE No. | CROSSLAPS (MG/L) | MABA7 (MG/L) | RATIO (CROSS/MABA7) |
1 | 0.79 | 0.63 | 0.80 |
2 | 26.37 | 49.96 | 1.89 |
3 | 12.24 | 4.61 | 0.38 |
4 | 1.97 | 2.97 | 1.51 |
5 | 24.33 | 78.74 | 3.24 |
6 | 5.53 | 9.95 | 1.80 |
MEAN | 1.60 | ||
CROSSLAPS = polyclonal | |||
MABA7 = monoclonal |
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- A method of estimating the fragmentation pattern of collagen in a body fluid, comprising subjecting a sample of said body fluid to at least two distinct immunological assays, which respectively measure the amount of a first and a second population of collagen breakdown products in said sample derived from a single collagen type and comparing the results of the said measurements.
- A method as claimed in Claim 1, wherein each of said populations of breakdown products comprises breakdown products of Type I collagen.
- A method as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein each of said populations of breakdown products comprises breakdown products of telopeptides of collagen.
- A method as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein said results are compared by combining them mathematically to form a numerical index.
- A method as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein one of said assays measures the amount of a population of breakdown products characterised by containing isoaspartic acid.
- A method as claimed in Claim 7, wherein said population comprises or consists of breakdown products containing one or more peptides of the sequence EKAH*GGR, wherein * is isoaspartic acid and K is part of a collagen cross-link or is lysine.
- A method as claimed in Claim 8, comprising determining the amount of the peptide of formula 2 (below) present in said body fluid: Wherein K-K-K is any naturally occurring cross-link and * is isoaspartic acid, or of one or more peptides incorporating an epitope present in the peptide of formula 2 which contains isoaspartic acid.
- A method as claimed in Claim 8 or Claim 9, wherein said determination is carried out using an immunological binding partner specific for an isoaspartic acid containing species present in the sample during the determination.
- A method as claimed in Claim 10, wherein the immunological binding partner is an antibody raised against a linear peptide corresponding to a sequence within collagen with isoaspartic acid substituting in said amino acid sequence for aspartic acid in said collagen sequence.
- A method as claimed in any one of Claims 8 to 11, wherein a or the other said assay measures a population of breakdown products containing peptides related to those detected in said one assay by the presence of aspartic acid in place of isoaspartic acid.
- A kit for use in estimating the fragmentation pattern of collagen Type I in a body fluid, comprising a first immunological binding partner for a first population of collagen breakdown products, a second immunological binding partner for a second population of collagen breakdown products deriving from the same collagen type as said first population and optionally one or more assay kit ingredients selected from buffers, wash solutions, synthetic peptides, anti-idiotype antibodies, antibody-enzyme conjugates, substrates for antibody-enzyme conjugates, body fluid control samples, standard solutions and enzyme conjugate reaction stopping solutions.
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